Occupational health and safety.
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Genetic hazards / produced by Michael Singsen and Mary Shinoff. (Episode 4 of 5)
How do the jobs we do affect our unborn generations? What are genetic toxins? How can we protect our children? Why is this not just a women’s issue? How can this issue be used to discriminate against women in the workplace? This program explores all of these topics, plus the American Cyanamid Plant in Willow…
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Asbestos : the silent killer / produced by Michael Singsen and Peggy Stein.
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Health and safety in the automated office: VDTs / produced by Mara Liasson
This short documentary examines the impact of the machine that best represents the automation of office work: the video display terminal. The program includes music, sound effects, and interviews with office workers and female trade unionists in San Francisco, as well as experts in the field of occupational safety and health. Health topics include stress,…
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Just slightly radioactive / produced by Peggy Hughes.
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Risk-benefit analysis / produced by Laurie Garrett.
Investigates how the government used risk/benefit analysis to sanction potential health hazards like recombinant DNA research, environmental carcinogens, and occupation related hazards.|RISK-BENEFIT ANALYSIS / produced by Laurie Garrett. – SERIES: KPFA thirty year retrospective| 1977. – Investigates how the government used risk/benefit analysis to sanction potential health hazards like recomninant DNA research, environmental carcinogens, and…
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Caution: living may be hazardous to your health / Larry Agran interviewed by Laurie Garrett
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Environmental carcinogens / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett (Episode 1)
Montage on the environmental origins of cancer, occupational health hazards, and the reluctance of industries to provide adequate safeguards against these hazards. Over 20 scientists were interviewed at a meeting of the American Cancer Society for this program, including Berkeley biochemistry professor Dr. Bruce Ames and immunologist Dr. Joel Schwartz. Written and produced by Laurie…